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Antero
de Quental
(1842-1891)
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Was connected with realist and symbolist
poetry through his Odes Modernas,
1865, which were part of the programme for the modernisation of Portuguese
society developed by the Geração de 70,
to which he belonged. Yet it was in his Sonetos
Completos, 1886, that the best of his poetry was to be seen, mixing
symbolism that was still tinged with the poetry of
ideas and with philosophical reflection, expressing the intimate and social
conflicts that would eventually lead him to commit suicide.
